My overarching research agenda reflects my interests in the environment and natural resources, grassroots community organizing, and social and environmental justice. I have explored these issues through research on various aspects of environmental social movements, environmental and natural resource conflicts in rural communities, and women’s and mothers’ environmental activism. I use sociological concepts to examine environmental and social change, particularly as it relates to issues of social movement resistance, environmental risk, elite social control, and gendered activism. The research questions that drive this work ask how communities and organizations can challenge patterns of environmental inequality and how citizens democratically participate in environmental decision-making. My work has been published in a variety of sociological and social science outlets, including Social Forces, Human Ecology Review, Mobilization, The Sociological Quarterly, and Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change. More recently, I have developed several projects that examine how grassroots community groups can work to challenge powerful entities in conflicts over land-use, natural resource access, and localized environmental contamination. This work will address extant gaps in our understanding of important political and power dynamics in cases of environmental conflict.